Taxation - Checklist - New faculty submissions.

Inland Revenue[QQ] The indexed rise for calculating the indexation allowance in respect of assets disposed in December 1999 is available. (Press release, 26 January.) Access the website for revised final guidance on application of employment status rules to workers using intermediaries – www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk English ICA Tax Faculty The Faculty has made submissions to the Revenue on enterprise management incentives, all-employee share plans, capital gains tax taper relief, powers to combat serious tax fraud and savings and investment income and to Customs on climate change levy and e-commerce. To obtain copies e-mail the following VWood@icaew.co.uk Customs & Excise Customs has announced new arrangements from 1 January 2000 for the investment gold exemption special scheme. There is an extra-statutory concession allowing businesses to use an alternative means of valuing refurbishment or fitting out work for the purposes of the capital goods scheme. Customs’ home page can be found on www.hmce.gov.uk Chartered Institute of Taxation The institute has made submissions on the Tax Law Rewrite Exposure Draft 8: Savings & Investment Income of Individuals Part 2 on 31 January 2000 in response to draft rewrite; on CGT retirement relief: Palmer v Moloney and Another: Interpretation of ‘substantially the whole of his time’: Taper relief as a business asset on 17 January 2000; and on charitable giving on 31 January 2000. For more details contact the technical department on 0171 235 9381 or visit the website at www.tax.org.uk.